#once

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #christ #christians #easy #established

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗

— Randall Terry

#comes #commandments #concept #french #french revolution

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#artists #believe #concerning #either #exchanging

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#arcane #concealed #obvious #step #toward

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#god #going #good #i #i think

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ↗

— William Gibson

#being #billions #children #concepts #consensual

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#half #like #nature #reveal #soul

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#insuperable #obstacle #progress